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Check. It. Out. I finally got a chance to try out the Auto-Tune Chamber here at Lucky Dog Audio. From a voice talent's point of view, it's kind of scary inside the chamber. With the unnatural gloam created by the blacklight glow lights, the acrid, cold taste to the air from the emissions of the multi-angle fog machine, and the ridiculous cover charge once you are in the door, the whole experience evokes the ante-room from Saturday Night Fever's 2001 Odyssey discotheque crossed with the isolation tank from Altered States. But this is where you have to go in order to get that Auto-Tune sound, so into the chamber I went.

Agency: Third Degree Creative • Writer: Daniel Solis • Campaign: Buck the Norm: Win Your Books 2010

Check out our assist! Here's a new spot we helped produce for Go USA Bid: Bring the FIFA World Cup back to the United States in 2018/2022. We cast the voice talent for the spot, recorded the VO, and provided the client with a final audio mix that they, in turn, posted to picture. Basically we set up all the audio elements that accompany the picture. So, in soccer terms, we didn't score the goal BUT we did pass the ball to the player who in turn scored the goal. And that's cool too, isn't it? I mean, we don't get to tear off our shirts and run around the soccer field like Mr Goal Scorer but we still get to brag. A little. Yay us!

Here's some recent work we produced for Blam and M.B. Piland promoting the Google... oops... I mean, Topeka Chamber of Commerce.

He's the Jan Gardner Memorial Award for Outstanding Radio Copy awarded to our agency compadres at Red Deluxe at this year's Memphis ADDY awards. Check out these two spots from their award winning Memphis Grizzlies radio campaign starring our voice talent compadre Big Lou Johnson.

Listen to "Greetings" :60

Listen to "Game Night" :60

PS. I photoshopped a lucha libre mask on our Soderberghicon. Did you notice? Yeah? You did? Well... no. I used the scale and distort tool. Really? Oh. I didn't know you could do that. Well.. I think it looks fine. You get the idea anyway. OK. Next time I'll try that thing you were talking about. K. Thanks.

Soderberghicons be praised, our friends at Eric Rob & Isaac won a Gold Addy (one of many at this year's Arkansas ADDY Awards) for the Goldman Recycling radio campaign they produced here with us. Congrats y'all!

Listen to the radio:

Support Group

Landfill RollCall

Landfill, Part II

Congrats to Zehnder Communications for winning Best of Show Overall this year at the Baton Rouge ADDY awards. Huzzah! One part of this campaign was the following handsome video with music, announcer VO, and audio mix provided by your's truly, Lucky Dog Audio Post. Which means it's time, once again, to whip out the Soderberghicon. Now... where is that thing?

EBR - We'll Make You Think from Zehnder Communications on Vimeo.

Here's a batch of TV spots we helped Archer Malmo produce for YMCA Memphis. We beefed up the nat sound for these, added the intro and outro music cues and recorded the voice over tag at the end.

The monochrome to color transition in these spots is rad. When I first saw the bicycle spot I was struck by how cool the guy looked in the opening shot. Classic nose room. Dig.

I liked the opening music Scott found for these spots. The bells in the drone remind me of Dok.

The graffiti spot also has an arresting opening shot. Plus I like the way that the text appears on the same wall that the kid is spray painting. Cool play on the graffiti idea.

Yeah. We cast and recorded these elves. The biggest challenge was finding an elf with a Spanish accent. It's hard enough to get elves in the booth this time of year but finding a Spanish elf who also had time for a VO session! Dang. That took a couple of calls. A Red Deluxe production, animation from Miracle Studios.

This past month we did the sound design for this bumpin' ASU promo that ran on ESPN2 during the ASU / ULM game on October 19. Scott did some really rad sfx work to create the ratcheting sounds that mark the Transformers-ish action early in this video. Without giving too much away I'll just mention that guns were involved and leave it at that.

Speaking of sports and sound design, have you seen the Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No video produced by No Mas???!!! Yowza! First off, it's an amazing story. But this video is the stuff! Great animation, killer song and some supa-clever sound design. The phone sounds are brilliant. Dig it! Wish I could say this was one of ours. Envy, thy name is Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No.

The assignment: write and record a school song/national anthem for a sports team that sounds like a huge men's chorus. Demo it up in less than a week.

We really had fun doing it. We listened to a lot of school songs. Sellout came up with the composition. Singers were hired. We had a concert band standing by to replace the demo instruments. But as is often the case, now it's dead. And while we can't share the whole thing with you, here's a little taste.

Stay with it. Behind-the-scenes with singers can be a little scary. And yes, that hat I'm wearing makes me look like a itinerant NASCAR fan.